In practice Thursday, McHale said he saw the team he knew back on the floor.

“It was a team I recognized today,” he said. “We pushed the ball, we ran, we didn’t just stand there holding the ball.”

Despite the sluggish offensive play on Wednesday night, the Rockets did get a win to start the season 1-0. Chandler Parsons said that was a good sign for what is to come for the team.

“We have a really good team,” Parsons said. “Hopefully we can win games like we did last night when we aren’t executing, when its ugly and sloppy but we don’t want to rely on that and we don’t want it to come to that every night.”